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If only. The last place I worked that used agile/scrum deliberately created silos anyway. They had a schedule devised by management and the product owners that
by gregjor 6y ago
If only. The last place I worked that used agile/scrum deliberately created silos anyway. They had a schedule devised by management and the product owners that was opaque to the team. Requirements got doled out every sprint in a disconnected way that prevented anyone knowing the big picture. A disaster, of course. Not an indictment of agile/scrum, but this kind of thing seems more common that the ideals promised by The Agile Manifesto.
- codingdave 6y agoI tend to agree - "Scrum" often means some formalized process that goes through the motions of Agile, but misses at least half of the principles behind it. So far, every single Scrum team I've joined ends up falling back to "Someone said this in a class/book/training session, so it must be the right answer, so we'll do it." Not that the books or classes are wrong... but you are supposed to customize the processes to the needs of your team, not follow a rigid script. Scrum is a tool, not a goal.